Hanna Morris

This is a conversation from the Victoria Forum. A collaboration between the Senate of Canada and the University of Victoria. I was asked to moderate this plenary session, "Bridging Environmental Divides: Shifting our relationship with the natural world from extractive to regenerative." This conversation analyzes our quest to shift our relationship with the natural world from extractive to regenerative by bridging environmental divides and exploring the many conversational ecosystems that come along with them. Our panel consists of Balgis Osman Elisha, Senator Rosa Galvez, Wendy Smith, and Kresse Wesling.

You can watch all of the sessions from this 3 day event at thevictoriaforum.ca
Heartfelt thanks to Saul Klein, Natalie Slawinski, and the organizers for permission to bring this to our campus and community radio stations.

In this episode from another conversation, we talk about the power of paradox and how it impacts the work we do including climate change.

Professor, author, poet, and lecturer, David Talks about the conversational nature of reality. That place between where who we think we are and what we expect of the world and what others think and expect of us is the only place that's real. We talk about his family and his work. One of my favorites!

Dr. Scranton is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches creative writing and environmental humanities. Roy is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, and climate philosopher, best known for his work on war, war literature, and the Anthropocene. He is the author of five books and has written widely for publications such as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, MIT Technology Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. At the time of this interview, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene had just been released. One of the more sobering conversations I've had over the years and one I always return to!

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